Is  boko haram now in lagos? Bomb Explodes in lagos killing a sand dealer

Umar Manko, Lagos State Commissioner of Police.



A middle aged businessman, Oladele Pius, was this morning killed when a bomb planted under FESTAC/Mile 2 link bridge, Lagos, few metres away from his office, exploded.
Witnesses told P.M.NEWS the sand dealer was passing by when the bomb exploded. He died on the spot.
But it could not be ascertained whether he was actually the target of those who planted the bomb or not.
At the time of filing this report, the scene of the incident has been cordoned off by armed mobile police officers while the body of the deceased has been deposited at the mortuary.
Pius was survived by his two wives and five children.
Sources at the scene of the incident also told P.M.NEWS that the legs of a policeman who visited the deceased were shattered as a result of the explosion.

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 Goat thief sent to jail  

Published on February 18, 2013An auto mechanic in Ilorin, capital of the Nigerian central state of Kwara, Fatai Isiaka, has been ordered detained in the Federal Prison in the city, as his trial opened for alleged goat stealing.
An Ilorin Magistrate Court gave the remand order after Isiaka was charged with criminal conspiracy, belonging to a gang of thieves and having possession of goats reasonably suspected to have been stolen.

goats: alleged thief sent to jail

The accused, aged 34 and of no fixed address, ran into trouble along with one Ibrahim now at large on 10 February when they were accosted by passers-by along Pipeline road in Ilorin parking goats into their operational Mazda 323 car with Reg. No Kwara AE 642 ARP.
Sensing danger, they hurriedly entered into their car and escaped with six goats they had allegedly stolen.
They were pursued by some motor cyclists who caught up with them due to an accident they had with a commercial motor cyclist at Pipeline Junction, leading to the recovery of the goats as well as their operational car and also the arrest of the accused while Ibrahim escaped.
According to Police First Information Report, FIR, the accused confessed to stealing the goats along Pipeline Road.
In line with the submission of the prosecutor, Inspector James Odaudu, the trial magistrate, Mr. N.K.Ajide, ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody while adjourning the case till 18 March for further mention.

THE SHAKERS  AND MOVERS OF THE NOLLYWOOD, KANNYWOOD INDUSTRY

Some actors and actresses across Nigeria and Ghana have grown from grass to grace and are now reckoned the movers and shakers of the film industry. However, only few like Genevieve Nnaji, Yvonne Nelson, Ali Nuha and others have been able to gain admiration from movie fans. PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA takes a look at some of them.

Maryam Booth
Maryam Booth who came into the acting scene at the age of eight is now the most talked about Kannywood actress. She came into the limelight with her hit movie Dijangala which was released in 2007.
Maryam, born on October 28, 1993, started her education in Ebony Nursery and primary school in 1996 with a play group, and in 2002 she went to Ahmadiyya secondary school where she is still schooling.
She has featured in several movies including, 'YarAljanna Ce-2010, Alawiyya- 2010, Burina (My Dream)-2010, Dijangala-2008 and Son Mai So-2012 among others.
Fati Niger




Binta Labaran, popularly known as Fati Niger has emerged as one of the most successful singers in the Hausa film industry (Kannywood). She started as a lyricist for movies before she broke away as a diva in her own right, producing song albums.
She has made a name for herself in the industry and today, she is considered rich in the reckoning of the movie industry. She owns her own song and movie production studio in Kano, the industry's hub.
Genevieve Nnaji





The most admired nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji, started her acting career as a child actress in the then popular television soap opera "Ripples" at the age of eight.
She was also featured in several commercials, some of which included Pronto beverage and Omo detergent. In 1998, she made her debut in the growing Nigerian film industry with the movie "Most Wanted."
Her subsequent movies--"Last Party," "Mark of the Beast," and "Ijele" (which is still considered to be one of her best epic performances) brought forth an icon to be loved and adored by many.
In 2002, she starred in the movie "Sharon Stone" and her fame shot beyond the shores of Nigeria to the rest of Africa and several European countries.
In recognition of her immense contribution to the Nigerian film industry, Genevieve was presented with numerous awards, some of which have been in Dublin, London, and the United States. She won best actress of the year in the 2001 City People Awards and in 2005 at the inaugural award of the prestigious African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA).
In 2004, Genevieve emerged as the face of Lux, gracing several billboards and television stations with her enduring smile and personality. The same year, she was contracted by a Ghanaian record label to record an album.
In a bid to give back to society, Genevieve in 2008, launched her clothing line, St. Genevieve, which donates a percentage of its proceeds to charity.
In 2009, Genevieve made history by being the first Nigerian actress to be profiled on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986) on an episode about the most popular people around the world. Genevieve is believed to be the highest paid and most desired actress in Nollywood and she has starred in over 80 Nollywood movies and has numerous fans around the world.
Patience Ozokwor

Patience Ozokwor, aka Mama G is reckoned one of the most talented nollywood actresses. She came into the scene through the late Pete Eneh who had the opportunity of shooting a serial (Someone cares) for a television station and he gave her the lead role.
After her first movie in 1998, she was already being recognised by people. But when she did Authority (1999), the movie became very popular and it really shot her into limelight. After Authority, she has been moving from one movie set to another.
She has featured in over 200 movies including Turning Point, Missing Child, Personal Desire, and Act of Faith among others.
Nkem Owoh
Nkem Owoh, popularly known as Osofia is a Nigerian actor and comedian. In 2008 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Owoh was born in Enugu, Nigeria. After his primary and secondary school he headed to the University of Ilorin and studied engineering. Already during his university studies, Owoh began acting in various television and film productions.
He starred in the 2003 film Osuofia in London. He is also known for performing the song "I Go Chop Your Dollar" about advance fee fraud.
Yvonne Nelson

Yvonne Nelson is one of the most talked about Gollywood actresses. She got so much into music as far back as in Junior High School and she was inspired by famous musicians such as Lauryn Hill and Nasir Jones.
In the 2005 Miss Ghana Beauty pageant, she won the best talent award by performing a rap song which she composed and Miss Photogenic along with two other awards. With the exposure that accrued from the Miss Ghana beauty pageant, she won a two-year contract as face of Maxim Cosmetics.
Her acting career began in the famous series, Fortune Island, by Farm House Productions. Her first lead role was in the movie Princess Tyra, after which she had featured in over forty movies and still looking forward to making her fans proud.
In recognition of her hard work, she was nominated for the best Upcoming actress at the AMMA awards held in Nigeria, in 2007. She was awarded the best star actress at the Joy FM night with the stars and the best actress by the Nigerian Eye Newspaper in 2009.
In 2010, she was awarded Ghana's favorite actress. Being the first Ghanaian to star in a movie shot in Ivory Coast has really deepened her acting career.
Nadia Buari

Nadia Buari, a former child model, made her on screen debut in the hit movie 'Mummies Daughter' where she played a supporting role alongside Jackie Appiah and Van Vicker.
She was born in 1980, in Takoradi, Ghana, to Alhaji Sidiku Buari, a musician and producer, and Hajia Buari, a beautician. Throughout her elementary school education, Buari was an active member of her school's drama, and dance club. Following high school, Buari enrolled in the University of Ghana, Legon, where she majored in Fine Art graduating with a BFA degree.
Her role as Beyounce in the hit Ghanaian flick "Beyounce: the President's Daughter" that propelled her into the limelight. Buari has starred in over 20 movies so far and still counting.
Ali Nuhu
Ali Nuhu,became a trend-setter being the only one to have successfully cut across the Northern and Southern axis of Nigeria as an actor.
He spent the highest number of his years growing in Yakasai, No Man's land and Hausawa areas of Kano town. He started his primary School Education in Riga Special Primary School, No Man's Land. He further went to Government Secondary Commercial School, Airport Road, Kano to attain his Junior Secondary School Certificate. He continued his education in Science Secondary School, Dawakin Tofa where he got his Senior Secondary School Leaving Certificate. He got a B.Sc. in Geography from the University of Jos and did his National Youth service in Ibadan, Oyo State after which he ventured into acting full- time.
Nuhu has featured in over 100 Hausa and 50 English movies and won 15 awards, with at least 10 from a competitive category.

        Cardinal Arinze’s chance of becoming next pope Bleak

When Benedict XV1 tendered his letter of retirement penultimate week, the entire Catholic kingdom was in frenzy. The appropriate authorities, we were told swung into action to have another clergyman takes the mantle of leadership so as not to leave the post vacant.
One of the top echelon in the highly sacred number one position in the Vatican City, Rome, Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigeria was said to be eligible for the position. But contrary to presumptions, Nigeria’s Cardinal Francis, may after all not be eligible to vote or be voted for when the College of Cardinals converge at the Vatican to elect a new Pope to replace Pope Benedict XV1. This is because he is over 80 years old.
Some western media had listed Arinze as a top contender in speculative stories on the prospects of a black Pope emerging. “Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana and Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria are in the frame to become the first ever-black pope, certainly in the modern era,” reports the British Telegraph newspaper a few days ago.
Under the terms put in place by Pope Paul VI, cardinals who had reached the age of 80 before the conclave opens had no vote in Papal elections.
Again, the current rules for the election of the Roman Pontiff; those put in place by Pope John Paul II on February 22, 1996, state that “cardinals who have reached the age of 80 before the day the Seat becomes vacant do not have a vote.”
Further checks in Wikipedia, a respected online encyclopaedia showed that cardinal Arinze was among the Cardinals listed as having reached the age of 80 and, as a result, lost the right to participate in a conclave.
Cardinal Arinze was born on November 1, 1932. He was 80 last year and has thus lost his right to participate in a conclave because of age.
When asked to comment on the eligibility of Cardinal Arinze, Monsignor Gabriel Osu who heads the communication department of the Lagos Catholic Archdiocese said: “Well, I am certain of Okogie and I am certain of Onaiyekan. Arinze I am not too certain. His age is 80 plus. What I have said is subject to correction. But I know that Okogie and Onaiyekan are within the range. These are the two. Arinze, being 80 plus, I doubt. I am subject to correction, but I doubt.”
Arinze has been Cardinal since May 25, 1985. He is the Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni – succeeding Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI. He is also the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
The cardinal was one of the principal advisors to Pope John Paul II, and was considered papabile before the 2005 papal conclave, which elected Pope Benedict XV1.
With Arinze most likely out, two other Nigerian Cardinals are still in the race. They are Cardinal John Onaiyekan who is 69 and Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie who is 76.
Onaiyekan was elevated to the post of Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in a Consistory on 24 November 2012. As Cardinal-Priest, he was assigned the titular church of San Saturnino. Onaiyekan was born on January 29, 1944 in Kabba, Kogi State.
Okogie was born on 16 June, 1936 in Lagos. He was proclaimed Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 21 October 2003, and holds the title of Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria del Monte Carmelo a Mostacciano (Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel of Mostacciano).

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"I DIED AND WOKE UP DURING MY PERIOD OF AILMENT " DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN

First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Sunday, said she died and woke up during the period of  her ailment which necessitated her absence from the country for almost three months.

In a thanksgiving service at the state House chapel in Abuja, the first lady said prayers offered by  Nigerians sustained her while some people who had taken her for dead had began selling her properties.
According to her, she underwent seven surgery operations within one month and the doctors had given up hope on her survival.
She said: “I remember when Chief  Obasanjo was the President of the country, I was close to his late wife, Stella. We worshiped together in this chapel.
“It was a painful moment for me that time when she died and her corpse was brought here.
“That was how my corpse would have been brought here. It was not an easy experience for me. I actually died, I passed out for more than a week. My intestine and tummy were opened.

From left, First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan; Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Helen Mark and former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon during a reception organised to honour the First Lady at the Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja: Photo: Abayomi Adeshida.

“I am not Lazarus but my experience was similar to his. My doctors said all hope was lost.
“A black doctor in London who is with us in this service was flown in when the situation became critical. It was God himself in His infinite mercy  that said I will return to Nigeria. God woke me up after seven days.
“I know that some people somehow leaked the information that  I was dead.  They are people that I trust and rely on; to them, I was dead and I would never return to the country alive. Some of them even sold my things off.
“I won’t say everything here. It is the Lord’s doing that I returned alive. When God says yes, nobody can say no.
“People are always afraid of operation (surgery) but in my own case, while my travail lasted, I was begging for it (surgery) after the third operation because I was going to the theatre everyday.
“It was God who saw me through. I did eight or nine operations within one month. It was not an easy one.

American Reality TV Superstar Kim Kardashian in Stunning Black Leather at Darey’s “Love Like a Movie” Event in Lagos

Posted on Monday, February 18th, 2013 at 9:33 AM By lifestylescosmos.blogspot.com

Kim Kardashian was in Lagos on Sunday 17th February 2013 for Darey‘s “Love Like a Movie” event. The event was spectacular – it definitely upped the standard of events staged in Nigeria in terms of theatrics. The stage, lighting, music and dramatic circus arts took things to the next level.

As everyone knows, Kim was one of the major attractions of the event. BN met the reality star and we have to say she was exceptionally sweet and courteous. Kim was clad in a black leather dress which hid her baby bump paired with high-heeled black sandals.

Check out photos of Kim at the event and look out for many more photos from “Love Like a Movie” on BN.

Photo Credit: NotJustOK